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20 februari 2015

Summerclothes when it is still winter outside? Yes! Project Run and Play came up with a nice challenge this month: to sew up a muscle tee, preferably with a little twist to it. Zomerkleding terwijl het buiten vriest? Jazeker! Project Run and Play had deze maand een leuke uitdaging: een hemdje naaien van het Mademoiselle Muscle Tee patroon, maar dan een beetje anders.

I decided to keep the characteristic 'muscle' look at the top, but add a bit of girlyness at the bottom.

The pattern only comes in a size 5, which is still way too big, so I ended up basically drawing an entire new pattern. At the bottom I added a piece of fabric that ties with a knot. My daughter loved opening and closing it over and over...

The outfit got her talking about summer. About walking outside barefoot, dinners under sunny skies, cooling off in a little bath in the shade. She then carefully folded her new summer clothes and put them away safely in her closet. Waiting for summer to come.

I realize it has been a bit too quiet here: the entire gang got hit seriously by flu; I even forgot to draw a winner of the give-away. Sorry! An innocent little hand helped me out, and the winner of the apron is:

7 februari 2015

For my second sewing project this week I used some supersoft rabbit mohair undergarments that once belonged to my sweet grandmother. She never threw things away that still could be used, and it only feels right to pay her a small tribute during this upcycling week.

Before sewing, I put everything in a dyebath and it turned into various shades of pink. A few shades too pink for my taste I have to admit... Then I made my little girl a pair of leggings and a wrap-around cardigan. She happily put it on and sighed: Oh, I'm completely soft now. I hope that includes her character ;-)

2 februari 2015

When I saw that the theme for this Kids Clothes Week was upcycling, I knew I just had to sew along, as upcycling is something I love and often do. There are quite a few exciting projects waiting on my sewing table, hopefully I will get many of them done this week...

Boys will be boys... and here that means they often damage their pants. Luckily, when the husband rips his brand new jeans (can someone please explain to me how that keeps happening?!), I can still turn them into a new pair for one of the other boys. After the last twopairs of upcycled jeans became an instant hit, it required little thinking to decide what my first project for this week would be.

While rummaging through my fabric closet, my son spotted a piece of fabric that he declared his all time favorite. Way too small for any decent piece of clothing. Perfect though, to give his new jeans a bit of a personal touch.

This time I sewed him Cisse, a pattern that has a huge variety of options to play with. The boy wanted a real zipper, and I used the flower fabric for both inner pocket pieces. It took some creativity to cut all pattern pieces from just one pair of jeans, so reused the original waistbelt as well, turning it inside out for colour contrast. The button-hole elastic and all buttons were also recycled.